Safeguarding Adults Nurse

Job Summary

The Safeguarding Adult Nurse will:

1. Work as part of the Trust Safeguarding Team to promote the Adult Safeguarding agenda, the Think Family approach and a culture of professional curiosity Trust wide.
2. Deliver effective compassionate safeguarding advice, support and supervision under the direction of the Lead Nurse and attend any Multi-Agency meetings as required.
3. Ensure that the Trust meets its statutory obligations to safeguard and promote the welfare of all adults, children and young people who access Walsall Healthcare Trust services, in conjunction with the wider Safeguarding Team.
4. Support the Adult Safeguarding Team in the development and delivery of quality assurance and innovative practice. This may include deputising for the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults within forums and meetings as deemed appropriate.

PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.

Main duties of the job

1. Delivering safe and effective safeguarding practice.
2. To enhance the patient's experience.
3. To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives.

About Us

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

Date posted

12 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

407-CORPORATE-6916762

Job locations

Town Wharf (main base) / Walsall Manor Hospital / Blakenall Village Centre, Cavell Close, Walsall, WS2 9NG

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

1. Delivering safe and effective safeguarding practice.

Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation, and trust standards.

Have a working knowledge of factors that may contribute to abuse and neglect, including domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health concerns, sexual abuse, learning disability, adverse childhood experiences, exploitation, self-neglect and hoarding.

Have a knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation in respect of adults with care and support needs.

Have a working knowledge of Mental Capacity assessment and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Take personal responsibility for own actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability and limitations, seeking advice and support as needed.

Practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice within own work area.

Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies and clinical guidelines within own work area.

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement using audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Promote a safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management, incident reporting and use of appropriate governance structures.

Demonstrate advanced communication methods to elicit the patients voice and liaise effectively with internal and external colleagues to address safeguarding concerns and promote patient safety.

Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, and ensure safeguarding practice is followed.

Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.

Escalate risk using internal and external escalation pathways to ensure the safety of patients and staff.

Have a working knowledge of the process for managing allegations against staff and prompt escalation to the Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Adults.

Complete timely documentation, and ensure this forms part of the patient record.

Ensure that safeguarding databases are kept up to date to provide accurate data collection as evidence for relevant trust reporting, our executive lead, Integrated Care Board (ICB), contracts and external bodies who may request this information.

Provide timely specialist safeguarding advice to Trust staff.

Demonstrate a knowledge of local epidemiological, demographic, social and professional trends and developments and how these inform safeguarding practice.

Lead by example, be influential in the way that care is delivered to patients accessing WHT services.

Access own safeguarding supervision and provide safeguarding supervision to other staff.

Work harmoniously as a team member, driving the safeguarding agenda and communicating effectively to meet the adult safeguarding objectives.

Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to meet service needs.

Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.

Critically appraise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations, and audits and put forward suggested recommendations when seeking to improve safeguarding practice.

Be able to prioritise work and to meet deadlines.

Be solution focused and support changes to improve working practice.

Be analytical of safeguarding practice and apply benchmarking against expected practice.

Be able to summarise relevant information and key findings relevant to safeguarding enquiries or incidents.

Be able to participate in safeguarding audits both internally and with key partner agencies, such as Walsall Adult social care, West Midlands Police and Probation.

Ensure knowledge of Strategic priorities of Walsall Safeguarding Adult Board to ensure WHT practice is reflective of these.

To enhance the patients experience

To effectively, holistically assess individuals safeguarding needs, supporting staff in planning actions to elicit any required support and/or referrals.

To promote the principles of the Care Act, which include assessment of mental capacity where indicated, making safeguarding personal and risk enablement.

To empower staff to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers, families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Ensure an effective and efficient patients journey by supporting and promoting effective information sharing of safeguarding concerns and the planning and coordination of services to promote safe transition/discharge.

Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person-centred care.

Promote a caring and compassionate environment where equality and diversity issues are respected, and patients are enabled to be partners in their care.

Be visible within the wards, and departments both in the acute and community to promote accessibility of the safeguarding service.

To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectives

Contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning.

Contribute to promoting a culture of protecting patients from harm and deprivation of basic rights.

Engage fully in the appraisal process by ensuring that personal development plans are completed, and that timely professional revalidation is undertaken.

Network with safeguarding peers across professional groups and clinical disciplines promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources.

Demonstrate effective use of resources in decision-making and propose appropriate strategies to enhance quality, productivity and value in own sphere of work.

Strive to improve safeguarding practice and associated health outcomes so that they are consistent with or better than national standards.

Contribute in a proactive manner to innovative redesign of clinical services, linked to organisational priorities to support improved outcomes.

Ensure knowledge and implementation of the organisations quality and safety agenda.

Develop and maintain a working knowledge of local, national and professional safeguarding strategy and policy, ensuring that organisational goals and values are reflected in personal objectives.

Demonstrate the ability to contribute to policy and strategy development at a departmental and organisational level and, where appropriate, national level.

Demonstrate compliance with the Trust values and to the pledges of the NHS Constitution 2012 (last updated 17.08.2023).

Act in a way which is consistent with the values-based approach to care delivery.

To be open and honest, practising in a transparent manner in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Trust Standards of Behaviour.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse, midwife or RMN, including those with a specialist qualification such as RHV, or those with HPC registration
• Degree level nursing qualification or evidence of commensurate experience in acute and or community nursing
• Evidence of relevant professional updating within last 12 months

Desirable

• ENB 998/Mentorship/SLAiP

Flexibility Essential

• There is flexibility with this post however there will be a requirement to work core hours (9am -5pm), to meet service need
• Ability to travel to a variety of locations to meet the requirement of the role

Knowledge and Experience Essential

• Relevant and recent experience of safeguarding
• Working knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Effective leadership
• Suitability and resilience to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
• Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation
• Use of databases
• Standard key board skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as word and excel
• Able to work under pressure across competing priorities
• Ability to utilise research and develop a research aware culture
• Clinical skills and competency to maintain credibility
• Can act on own initiative

Desirable

• Knowledge of Domestic Abuse /Exploitation
• Training delivery experience
• Management experience
• Use of WHT electronic patients records

Competencies, Skills and Aptitudes Essential

• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Ability to communicate with a wide variety of staff internally and externally, patients and carers
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Courteous and polite, and able to model the Trust's values and standards of behaviour
• Ability to communicate empathetically with staff and on occasion patients, relatives and or carers when discussing potentially distressing and sensitive information

Other Essential

• Ability to de-brief patients, relatives, carers and staff during stressful and emotional times or following a serious incident

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.